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Participants: Yvonne Lewis (Host), Dr. Eddie Glaude

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00:01 Why is there so much racial tension in America today?
00:04 Stay tuned for some valuable insight from my guest.
00:08 My name is Yvonne Lewis
00:10 and you're watching Urban Report.
00:35 Hello and welcome to Urban Report.
00:38 My guest today is Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr.
00:41 Dr. Glaude is the Chair of the Department
00:43 of African American Studies
00:45 and the William S. Tod
00:46 Professor of Religion and African American Studies
00:49 at Princeton University.
00:51 He's the recipient of numerous awards including the
00:54 Carl A. Fields Award
00:55 and was a Visiting Scholar in African-American studies
00:59 at Harvard University and Amherst College.
01:02 He's been a guest on numerous TV Shows
01:05 including the Tavis Smiley Show,
01:08 Fox TV's Hannity and Colmes Show,
01:11 Good Morning Joe, CNN, C- SPAN and more
01:14 and he is the Author of several books
01:17 the most recent of which is
01:19 "Democracy in America:
01:20 How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. "
01:24 Welcome to Urban Report Dr. Glaude.
01:26 It's a pleasure to be here with you.
01:29 Yeah... you know, I've seen you...
01:32 I was so excited...
01:34 I was watching Good Morning Joe one morning and
01:37 you were on and I had already started reading your book
01:40 and I was just so happy to see you there
01:43 and to hear the insight that you share
01:46 because we are really in a very...
01:49 really strange place in terms of race relations here.
01:55 What is going on in America right now with racial tension,
02:00 what would you say is... like...
02:02 are the primary factors involved in that?
02:05 Well, I think it's... it has a lot to do with...
02:07 with the economic insecurity that folks are feeling.
02:11 When we think about what happened in 2007 and 2008
02:14 with the great recession,
02:16 folks lost much of the hard work that they put in.
02:21 You think about African American Communities...
02:23 over 240,000 homes lost in black America,
02:27 you see 38 percent of black children growing up in poverty,
02:33 but not only in the black community
02:35 but in the white community,
02:36 you see folks losing their homes,
02:38 you see folks who...
02:39 their homes are no longer... they're under water...
02:41 they're not valued as much as they thought it...
02:43 as they once thought they were,
02:45 you see that they can't afford college... to pay for college
02:48 because college expenses have sky rocketed,
02:50 you see that they're working harder,
02:52 working longer for less,
02:53 and so, you see, all of this sense...
02:56 you see all of this tension
02:57 rooted in the sense of deep economic insecurity
03:00 and the history of the Country is that...
03:02 usually when that happens,
03:03 people are looking for folk to blame, right?
03:07 "The reason why I'm not making what I used to make
03:11 is because we're giving my money to people who are undeserving. "
03:14 "The reason why my house isn't worth as much... "
03:17 or "I can't afford to send my kid to college
03:20 is because they're giving the seat to someone else
03:22 who doesn't deserve it all. "
03:23 "These undocumented workers... these lazy black folk... "
03:26 and so you see folks scapegoating
03:28 as they try to make sense...
03:29 as they try to make sense
03:31 of the fact that they're losing ground,
03:32 and we see all of these studies out here Dr. Lewis,
03:35 folks... you know white women dying early,
03:38 white men with high school degrees
03:41 suffering from opiate abuse and suicide rates are increasing
03:46 why is it? Because there's darkness
03:48 throughout the land because the greed...
03:49 the top one-tenth percent... the top one percent...
03:53 taking all the gains while the 99 percent are suffering...
03:56 You know, that's really interesting,
03:59 the whole idea of the need for a scapegoat...
04:03 the whole idea for the need for answers
04:07 as to why the economic instability is happening
04:11 so that makes a lot of sense to me
04:13 that... you got to have somewhere to put this
04:17 and so, you're going to put it on the perceived...
04:20 the perceived problems or problem areas
04:26 that you've kind of nurtured through the years
04:29 so you're... it's all about perception isn't it?
04:33 It's interesting to me Doc that there is this perception
04:38 of blacks... that kind of permeates the media
04:42 because even though you might have
04:43 the person in charge that's black in the media,
04:46 you still have the criminals that are black,
04:49 you still have the prostitutes
04:51 that are mostly black,
04:53 you still... so you have this dichotomy going on
04:57 and we have this perception of blacks in Society
05:01 that we just are takers,
05:03 we just want Government handouts,
05:05 we don't want to work, where is that coming from?
05:09 Where does that come from
05:11 because it drives me a little nuts,
05:12 where does that come from?
05:13 It has a long history, it has a long history
05:15 going all the way back to the days of slavery.
05:17 When you think about how...
05:19 how the system of slavery was justified
05:22 right... that in some ways
05:24 these people lack the capacity... the mental capacity
05:27 to take on the burdens of citizenship,
05:30 that in fact... they needed to be enslaved...
05:33 because they were being introduced...
05:35 we were being introduced to civilization,
05:37 that the benevolent or paternal slave master...
05:40 offered the slave... right... the resources
05:44 the means by which to understand themselves
05:47 in more human terms,
05:48 right, even, they had diseases
05:51 that they would attribute to black folk
05:53 if you wanted to run away, they called it "Drapetomania"
05:56 right... a disease for wanting freedom
05:58 right, and then when you think about
06:00 even post emancipation,
06:02 the idea that African Americans didn't want to work,
06:07 that we were lazy, that we were "criminogenic"
06:10 inclined to criminal behavior, that we were sexual predators
06:14 or that we were loose in our morals,
06:16 all of this was a part of a broader language,
06:20 a part of a broader discourse
06:22 to justify the treatment of black folk
06:25 as second-class citizens,
06:26 so in the book I say that at the heart of this Country,
06:29 at the heart of this Country has been...
06:31 what I call "the value gap"
06:33 and the value gap is the fundamental belief
06:36 that white people matter more than others
06:38 and that belief is not just simply about
06:41 loud racists... that belief isn't simply about
06:44 people running around yelling the "N" word,
06:46 right... it's evidenced in our social practices,
06:50 in the way we talk, in the way we see
06:52 in the way we interact with each other,
06:54 it's evidenced in our political realities,
06:56 in our economic arrangements so that...
06:59 you get this language... this discourse,
07:02 right... that black folk don't...
07:04 I'm from the south, I'm from Mississippi,
07:06 that black folk don't work for nothing,
07:08 that we don't want to work hard,
07:10 that we just want handouts, that we are dependent,
07:13 that we are victim mongers, right?
07:15 we're training in victimization and none of that...
07:18 none of that... bears any resemblance to any truth,
07:22 the data shows it very clearly.
07:24 And you know, I think, it's important to...
07:29 to say that that the data contradicts that
07:32 because... again it's perception and you know...
07:35 this is not about... I look at it like this Doc
07:39 and you tell me if you agree or disagree.
07:41 I think we have internal issues within the black community
07:45 and we have external issues,
07:47 we have institutionalized racism
07:50 which a lot of people will deny
07:52 and so, today... like... some people might get offended,
07:56 whites and blacks because... to me...
07:58 we're having a little, honest discussion here
08:01 about why things are the way they are.
08:04 I look at the black family
08:08 and one of the things that we're trying to do here
08:10 at Dare to Dream is to support relationships,
08:12 to support the family with programming that does that,
08:16 so, you know, we realize we have internal issues
08:21 and we also have external issues
08:24 and I think a lot of people may think
08:26 that we have a black President,
08:27 so because we have a black President now,
08:30 racism is gone in this Country and it is not...
08:34 would you speak to that, like, how there is this...
08:38 this perception that we're no longer,
08:41 we no longer have race problems in this Country,
08:44 we really do, would you speak to that?
08:46 Well sure, I think, part of that...
08:48 part of that conclusion is actually rooted in trying to
08:52 place the blame of the condition of poor black folk...
08:55 of the condition of poor black communities
08:58 to try to place the blame
08:59 squarely on the shoulders of black folk
09:01 as if we didn't have a history of a duel labor market
09:04 which track people to certain jobs...
09:07 as if we haven't had a history
09:08 of deeply and profoundly segregated schools
09:11 which did not commit themselves to educating black children
09:15 and giving them... and offering them opportunities
09:17 out in the work place,
09:20 as if we haven't had a dual housing market
09:22 that the wealth gap is,
09:24 because black folk aren't working hard
09:26 as opposed to structural reality that prevents them...
09:28 and prevented them from acquiring wealth.
09:31 So all this is really about placing blame
09:34 squarely on our shoulders, now let's be very clear,
09:37 they're absolutely right,
09:38 I mean, African Americans are human...
09:40 so we have knuckle-heads in our Community,
09:42 we have people making bad choices,
09:45 Yvonne: Absolutely.
09:46 We have people making bad choices
09:47 but you have people making bad choices in white communities,
09:50 in Latino communities, in Asian communities,
09:51 but people are not accounting for the circumstances
09:55 of those communities by way of those bad choices, right?
09:59 So... so, part of what I'm suggesting here
10:02 is that we have to try to delve more deeply
10:05 into why folk want to say
10:08 that the reason why black communities are suffering...
10:12 many of them, principally... it's because
10:15 of bad choices on the part of black people,
10:20 as opposed to a history... an enduring history
10:24 of racism in this Country...
10:26 an enduring legacy of racist practices
10:30 rooted in the value gap and rooted in racial habits,
10:33 let me give you an example really quickly.
10:34 Yvonne: Yeah, please.
10:36 I tell my students all the time, we learn race... right?
10:39 Just by simply moving about space, in the United States,
10:42 right here in Princeton, that's all you need to do is
10:46 drive down 206... Route 206
10:48 or walk down Witherspoon Street...
10:51 and you learn "race,"
10:52 you learn the difference of what it means to be
10:55 near the University
10:57 and what it means to live down where the Latino Community lives
11:00 or where the African American Community lives,
11:03 you see the differences of resources
11:05 and I tell the story of...
11:06 my dad was the second African American
11:08 hired in the Post Office...
11:10 at the Post Office in Pascagoula, Mississippi...
11:13 and we moved from one side of town to the other,
11:15 we moved into this big house on the hill,
11:17 a nice two-story house on the hill
11:19 because Post Office back then
11:20 was "high cotton" as we called it,
11:22 and as we were moving in,
11:24 I'm playing with my Tonka truck outside
11:27 and I hear the neighbor yell at his son
11:29 to stop playing with that "N" word,
11:31 I grab my Tonka truck and I run inside
11:34 and that's the story we typically tell of racism,
11:38 family gets... achieves the American dream,
11:42 gets a big house on the hill and then some child gets wounded
11:45 right, by being called that word,
11:48 that child has to spend the rest of his or her life
11:50 saying that she's nothing
11:51 but actually... I had already learned that difference,
11:56 because in our old neighborhood, when it rained, it flooded,
11:59 because the pipes were bad, the sidewalks weren't paved,
12:02 the houses were smaller, the schools weren't as good,
12:06 so we learned the habits of race, right?
12:09 in the very spatial environment
12:11 and that has nothing to do with whether or not we are
12:13 being responsible or making bad choices and...
12:15 it's just the way the Country is organized.
12:18 Yvonne: Hmmm... and I think...
12:20 and I think that... that's really a good point,
12:23 I think that so often... unless you're actually living
12:27 within that kind of construct, you don't realize it,
12:31 it's not a part of your reality,
12:34 so if it's not a part of your reality,
12:37 there's this... there's this ignorance out there
12:42 because it's not your reality,
12:45 so we have two different realities going,
12:49 and it's interesting to me that
12:53 many times, you know, you can be...
12:57 you can see it on the news maybe,
13:00 but it's still not your daily life
13:03 so you can kind of push it aside because it's not you...
13:05 I am so concerned about our young people,
13:09 I'm so concerned about the illiteracy...
13:12 the literacy or lack thereof, rate in our communities,
13:17 our children aren't reading,
13:18 where the schools are sub-standard,
13:20 I mean, all of these things and that is our reality,
13:25 I think that watching what's been happening
13:29 with police... across America, you know,
13:32 there have been these different discussions,
13:35 we have a black lens and a white lens
13:38 and people see through their lenses
13:41 and I think... when you talk about that value gap,
13:45 it is so important that we re-examine that
13:50 because until we...
13:52 and I want you to unpack that for us a little bit more,
13:54 until we do that,
13:56 we're going to keep seeing through these two lenses
14:00 and they're not going to come together
14:02 and we really want them to come together
14:04 so we can... get past this,
14:06 what would you say about that value gap,
14:08 unpack that some more for us.
14:10 Yes, you know we talked about the achievement gap,
14:12 you know, we talk about the wealth gap,
14:14 we even talk in social psychological terms
14:17 of the "empathy gap" but at the heart of it is
14:20 the value gap and if we have a society that's built
14:23 on the belief that white people matter more than others,
14:26 then no matter what the inputs are,
14:28 no matter what the inputs are, the outputs will be the same,
14:32 so think about it,
14:33 John Adams, at the moment of the revolution,
14:35 the articulation of the American principles
14:38 of freedom, liberty and equality,
14:39 at that moment, he says to King George,
14:41 "We will not be your negroes"
14:43 so at the very moment in which he is giving voice
14:46 to an idea of freedom,
14:47 it's based on an intimate understanding of un-freedom
14:50 so here we say,
14:52 we're committed to the principles of freedom,
14:54 equality and liberty
14:55 but we're reconciling with the institution of slavery,
14:57 that's the value gap.
14:59 In the context of the civil war,
15:01 we go to war over the issue of slavery,
15:03 people will talk about it,
15:04 as States' rights and all of that stuff
15:06 but we know what was at the core of the civil war
15:09 and then we have radical reconstruction,
15:12 an opportunity to really fundamentally build
15:14 a multi-racial democracy and what do we get in response?
15:18 We get convict leasing...
15:19 convict leasing... where African Americans are
15:22 arrested for vagrancy law for just wandering...
15:26 as they were trying to find their families
15:27 in cities like Birmingham
15:29 were built on the backs of convict labor,
15:32 people unjustly convicted and that wasn't made illegal
15:36 until the 1940s... the value gap.
15:40 In the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement
15:42 here you have just everyday ordinary people
15:44 putting forward a moral call
15:46 for the Nation to live up to its principles
15:48 so that black folk can live in this Country
15:51 with dignity and standing as first-class citizens
15:53 and what do we get in response?
15:55 We get calls for law and order,
15:57 we get the tax reform in California
16:00 and by 1980, just 12 years after
16:03 the last piece of major legislation was passed...
16:06 the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
16:08 We get the election of Ronald Reagan
16:10 who tries to undo it all just 12 years later.
16:12 Then think about it, well... that's the value gap,
16:15 we elect President Obama,
16:17 everybody says that we're making the turn,
16:19 we've finally entered this post-racial Society
16:22 and then what do we get?
16:23 We get the vitriol of the Tea Party,
16:25 we get an attack on the Voting Rights Act.
16:28 That's a re-assertion of the value gap
16:31 so I'm not suggesting that today is the same as 1960
16:36 which is the same as 1860,
16:38 each of these moments represents progress,
16:41 but underneath all of it, is the belief that some people,
16:47 because of the color of their skin
16:48 are valued more than others
16:50 and that's why so many of our fellow Americans,
16:54 so many people who we love as children of God,
16:57 so many people are okay...
17:00 are okay with watching parents bury their babies
17:03 who've been killed at the hands of the police,
17:07 watching Municipalities close their school...
17:10 you know... close their budgets...
17:12 balance their budgets on the backs of school districts
17:16 in black and brown communities,
17:17 they're okay with us jailing over 2 million people,
17:22 the majority of whom are black and brown,
17:25 right... and so, I want to suggest
17:28 that the value gap is not about loud races,
17:32 that's too easy, it's about us...
17:34 it's about all of us
17:36 allowing ourselves to live in a world
17:38 where all of this can happen.
17:40 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm...
17:41 Eddie: That's what I mean.
17:42 That's rich... that's rich...
17:44 so what role do you think the church has
17:47 in helping to... to close this gap?
17:51 How can we make a difference, black and white together,
17:54 how can we make a difference?
17:55 Yeah, it seems to me that the church has to be a church
17:59 that stands on the revolutionary ministry of Jesus,
18:03 you know, Jesus wasn't put on a cross
18:06 because He was cozy with the Romans,
18:09 right? He wasn't...
18:12 He wasn't putting forward a view that was
18:17 comfortable for the status quo,
18:19 you see, so if Jesus...
18:22 if we have a Matthew 25-centered gospel,
18:26 right, well you have a church
18:28 that's not so much interested in your W-2,
18:31 where you're sowing a seed to prove that God has blessed you,
18:35 right, but if you have a church that's really concerned with
18:39 mind, body and spirit,
18:41 then we would have a church
18:43 that wouldn't be so adjusted, in my view, to injustice.
18:47 Hmmm... so you think the church too
18:51 has been adjusted to injustice.
18:55 Complicit... we're complicit...
18:57 see, you can't... in my mind...
19:00 and you know this might sound a bit radical
19:04 but to my mind, it's easy to run around
19:07 and say that you're saved,
19:09 you can be a kind of "Christianly peacock... "
19:11 showing your feathers...
19:13 Yvonne: Ah ha...
19:14 but what does it mean
19:17 to actually bear witness to the gospel,
19:19 right, that means you have to challenge the money-changers,
19:23 that means you have to provide the conditions under which
19:27 those who are suffering, who can't eat...
19:30 who can't put food on the table,
19:31 who can't put a roof over their house...
19:33 who are trying to struggle,
19:34 to make sure that their children can not only dream dreams
19:37 but make those dreams a reality,
19:39 right, to enact the gospel in real terms,
19:42 in real concrete terms, right?
19:46 But so often... it seems to me...
19:49 that folk are...
19:52 how can I put this...
19:54 they're more interested in kind of
19:55 performance of the gospel.
19:59 They act a lot like Pharisees, if you know what I mean.
20:03 Ah ha... ah ha... gospel performers...
20:06 Exactly... so I want a radical church,
20:09 I want a black church in particular
20:12 that is grounded... not just simply on the cross,
20:15 but the cross was evidenced in that lynching tree,
20:18 Jesus is evidenced in... in... in...
20:21 in the souls who are locked up in all of these prisons, right,
20:26 evidenced in the body of Mike Brown...
20:28 in the body of Sandra Bland, right...
20:31 evidenced in these children who can't read
20:33 because schools are failing them day in and day out,
20:35 who can't imagine, right...
20:37 living a life better than their mothers and fathers,
20:41 if you're going to really bear witness,
20:44 right... to the love and compassion and mercy of God,
20:48 right... evidence to the sacrifice of your Son for us,
20:52 you got to do more than just simply claim and proclaim
20:56 that you're saved, that's too easy,
20:58 does that make sense?
21:02 Yes, yes, yes, you're preaching, you're preaching now...
21:05 Eddie: That's too easy to me...
21:07 Yvonne: But it's true... it's true...
21:08 it's not just about an intellectual assent
21:11 to all of this, it is about backing it up
21:14 with some kind of action
21:16 by not just accepting
21:18 the situation as it is
21:21 because the first thing you have to do is
21:22 kind of see the situation for what it is
21:25 and I think, again, internally
21:28 we have to... we have to make certain choices,
21:31 we have to take responsibility for certain things
21:33 and externally, you know...
21:35 we have to see that there are situations
21:39 that have to be corrected institutionally
21:42 and so, by doing this, I think, we can come together
21:46 and make a difference because it's not...
21:49 and I want to make this clear, this is not about
21:52 you know... saying, "White people are bad and... "
21:55 Eddie: No... not at all. Yvonne: This is not that...
21:57 this is saying that... that structurally...
22:00 we have had a problem in America
22:03 for hundreds of years that this problem...
22:07 this value gap has to be closed,
22:10 it has to be closed.
22:12 Cornel West is a good friend of mine
22:14 that many people know about...
22:16 Cornel West jumped into a pool when he was a young kid
22:19 in Sacramento, California, all the people...
22:21 all the white kids jumped out and they emptied the pool,
22:24 right in front of him,
22:25 my colleague, Albert Raboteau, who wrote a wonderful book
22:28 entitled "Slave Religion" which is the foundation
22:31 of African American religious history as a field...
22:33 he didn't grow up with his father
22:35 because a Mississippi Store Owner
22:37 blew his father's brains out because he dared speak to him
22:40 because he thought he disrespected his wife,
22:42 this isn't 1840... this isn't 1903...
22:47 these are the 1950s and '60s... right... and so...
22:52 we believe... like I said...
22:54 the last major piece of legislation
22:57 passed in the Great Society was 1968...
22:59 the Fair Housing Act...
23:01 which they never, never implemented...
23:03 just 12 years later,
23:05 there was the election of Ronald Reagan
23:07 and a systematic attack on the Great Society.
23:10 So you want to suggest to me that between 1964 and 1965...
23:15 that's the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act,
23:17 and now... it's at '68... 12, 15, 12... years later...
23:21 that suddenly we resolved centuries of America's race...
23:25 of course not... and let's be very clear,
23:28 the value gap doesn't require white people
23:31 in order to be sustained, all of us...
23:33 are habituated in...
23:35 all of us are reproducing...
23:37 this is the example I use,
23:39 I don't consider myself a climate-changer denier...
23:42 I think the world is warming, right,
23:44 but if you look at how I live...
23:47 and the choices I make... it would seem that I am...
23:50 you look at my car... you look at my house...
23:54 you look at my light bulbs, you look...
23:56 the choices that I'm making day in and day out,
23:59 suggest that I don't believe that the world is warming.
24:03 But I wouldn't say that I'm a climate change denier...
24:06 so people can say, "I'm not a racist... "
24:09 but when they're making choices
24:11 about where they send their kids to school,
24:13 when they're making choices about where they live,
24:16 when they're making choices about what they vote for,
24:19 how they understand work, how they...
24:22 we're making choices day in and day out
24:24 that reproduce the value gap,
24:26 it's not because we're bad people...
24:31 it's because this is the vibe...
24:32 this is the place we've been socialized in
24:36 and I want to say this to Christians real quick...
24:38 there's this wonderful...
24:39 there's this extraordinary moment at Pentecost in Acts...
24:43 and folks are looking and they say,
24:45 "They must be drunk... "
24:47 because they're trying to figure out
24:50 something is different about them.
24:52 Yvonne: Right.
24:53 The way they inhabit space and time,
24:56 something is different about them
24:59 and the question that Christians need to be asking
25:03 is that... are people thinking that we're drunk?
25:06 Yvonne: Come on now...
25:07 Because it seems to me that we're so much...
25:10 we're just like everybody else.
25:12 So, how are we different from the world then
25:17 if we're not making a difference?
25:19 Exactly... that's the question,
25:21 that's the question I think every pastor
25:25 needs to be asking him or herself.
25:27 That's the question that every person in the pews
25:30 should be asking him or herself, right...
25:33 what difference am I making in the world by bearing witness
25:38 to the sacrifice of Jesus, right...
25:41 on my behalf... right...
25:43 and if the church is not making a difference
25:46 in the day-to-day lives of people
25:48 in the communities that they reside in,
25:51 if the church is so... how can I put this?
25:54 It seems to me that churches
25:56 are more interested in strategies like Wal-Mart
25:59 and Home Depot,
26:00 I'm going to buy a big piece of land out in the suburbs
26:04 and I'm going to build this huge complex
26:06 and dat... dat... dat... sounds like a Wal-Mart strategy,
26:10 a big box strategy, right...
26:12 what are you doing for all of these people
26:15 who are coming out of prison?
26:17 What are you doing for all these people who've lost their homes?
26:20 What are you doing for all of these people
26:22 who are having to make a decision
26:23 of putting food on the table
26:25 or keeping a roof over their heads?
26:27 How are you addressing the least of these?
26:30 How are you addressing the least of these...?
26:33 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm...
26:34 That has nothing to do...
26:36 that has nothing to do
26:37 with whether or not somebody is racist,
26:40 somebody is lazy,
26:41 it's called bearing witness to the gospel
26:43 that you supposedly are committed to.
26:45 Dr. Glaude, that is so rich, you know what?
26:49 you have got to come back again,
26:52 in fact, I really wish you'd come and see us here
26:54 but if you can't...
26:56 if I can just get you on Skype again,
26:57 I want to do that because there's so much...
26:59 I didn't even go through your journey,
27:02 I want to go through your journey,
27:04 I want to find out more about you,
27:06 we didn't even get to all that...
27:07 there's so much more, will you come back?
27:10 Absolutely, absolutely...
27:12 Oh that would be great because there's so much more
27:14 do you have a closing thought like... 10 seconds...
27:16 a closing thought for the Viewers?
27:19 The only thing I say is that
27:20 if we're going to uproot the value gap,
27:22 we're going to have to have a revolution of value...
27:24 that means... we're going to have to change
27:26 our view of Government,
27:28 which means... we have to change our demand of Government.
27:30 We have to change our view of black people,
27:32 to change our view of black people...
27:34 that means we're going to have to change
27:35 our view of white people
27:37 and lastly, we got to change our view of what ultimately matters.
27:40 We can't have a Society based upon selfishness, greed
27:43 and narcissism,
27:45 instead, we have to have the Society based on the fact
27:48 that every human being should be extended
27:50 dignity and standing
27:51 because every human being is a child of God.
27:53 Thank you so much, may God bless you
27:56 and thank you so much for joining us,
27:59 join us next time because you know what?
28:01 It just wouldn't be the same without you.


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